Anyone who has ridden a paternoster more than a few times probably knows that this form of up-and-down motion can expand consciousness without compromising being. However, because some authorities consider the constantly moving cabin elevator to be dangerous, there are hardly any paternosters open to the public. In Hamburg, what is possibly the oldest paternoster in Germany, probably installed in 1908, should be ready for operation again in the so-called Flüggerhaus in September after extensive renovation. However, it will remain more of a showpiece because the owner, a real estate company, only wants to make the human conveyor machine accessible once a year on Open Monument Day.
In Germany, around 200 of these open elevators are still running. They are called Paternoster because the cabins move, so to speak, like the beads in the Catholic rosary, with which one repeatedly prays the Lord’s Prayer, Paternoster. The cabins are suspended on two chains, which are driven by an electric motor and run in constant motion via gears or discs. Paternoster veterans (and of course veterans too) know that sometimes you have to do the entire tour with the cabin, i.e. drive the turn at the top and bottom. Only when you see this rumbling hopelessness do you realize how small people are and how big the paternoster is.
In the old building Süddeutsche Zeitung in downtown Munich there was also a paternoster. Some people are of the opinion that you can tell from the newspaper that since November 2008, since the move to a fatherless high-rise building, it has been made without a paternoster.
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